Turn your back for 1 second

[Fishcake]

and someone steals your coat, your mp3 player and oyster card.

******* *******.

[Bonker Gudd]

Was it the fairies again?

[oceanebelle]

what's an oyster card?

[Shaggy Hiker]

With a name like FishCake, one can only assume that it's some kind of ID. Perhaps he was feeling a little shellfish that day.

[mendhak]

what's an oyster card?

The London Undergrounds are very crowded, you need an oyster card to mussel your way through the throngs.

[Fishcake]

Was it the fairies again?

It could've been but i didn't see them.

[disruptivehair]

what's an oyster card?

An Oyster card is a prepaid card that you can 'top up' periodically at various points in the London Underground, and you get discounted peak fares on subway trains and buses. Tourists can use them too; if you're visiting London and plan to be there more than a few days you might consider getting one, might save you money. Fares for non-Oyster card holders are going up yet again.

They can save you time, too; instead of queuing to buy a ticket and then putting your ticket through a machine that successfully reads it only 50% of the time, you can just slap your wallet down on a reader and the doors open as if by magic.

They really are quite cool.

[oceanebelle]

I'm hungry, but I got a weight to lose.

[wossname]

Another pearl of wisdom.

[oceanebelle]

An Oyster card is a prepaid card that you can 'top up' periodically at various points in the London Underground, and you get discounted peak fares on subway trains and buses. Tourists can use them too; if you're visiting London and plan to be there more than a few days you might consider getting one, might save you money. Fares for non-Oyster card holders are going up yet again.

They can save you time, too; instead of queuing to buy a ticket and then putting your ticket through a machine that successfully reads it only 50% of the time, you can just slap your wallet down on a reader and the doors open as if by magic.

They really are quite cool.

cool

[wossname]

They also serve as a way for foreign governments to track your every move and probe you in your sleep.

[oceanebelle]

do they get deaf with all the snores?

[Fishcake]

They also serve as a way for foreign governments to track your every move and probe you in your sleep.

I actually don't register mine due to not liking the idea of the goverment knowing exactly where i go.

The downside of that of course is that if i lose it i lose any money on it.

[disruptivehair]

I actually don't register mine due to not liking the idea of the goverment knowing exactly where i go.

The downside of that of course is that if i lose it i lose any money on it.

They film you everywhere you go anyway.

[Fishcake]

I've learnt to pixelate my face to avoid this.

[disruptivehair]

I've learnt to pixelate my face to avoid this.

Oooh, teach me...I work in the city center so I probably get filmed a lot.

[bushmobile]

Oooh, teach me...I work in the city center so I probably get filmed a lot.

it involves using a large mallet and... well you can probably figure out the rest.

[mendhak]

In England, they use croquets. It's more polite.

[wossname]

Tally bally ho, what?

[bushmobile]

i was actually thinking more along the lines of a meat mallet:



that way you get the lovely bumpy look that all the glossy magazines are raving about

[wossname]

meat jokes ahoy...

[mendhak]

Jokes ahoy, but try not to butcher them.

[Fishcake]

it involves using a large mallet and... well you can probably figure out the rest.

seriously, what's your beef? Are you suggesting i hit disruptivehair in the face with a hammer?

[Fishcake]

Seriously, this was a serious thread until post #2.

[capsulecorpjx]

and someone steals your coat, your mp3 player and oyster card.

******* *******.

If it was an IPod, the thief did you a favor. :-D

[Shaggy Hiker]

Seriously, this was a serious thread until post #2.

Heck, it you got robbed, you would have to figure that nobody here can do anything but try to cheer you up a bit.

[Fishcake]

And I wouldn't want it any other way.